Since I work with recommender systems, I’d hardly be doing my job if I didn’t notice things like Google Reader’s new feed recommendations. From the description of how the recommender works on the Google help page (which is unfortunately not very specific): Your recommendations list is automatically generated. It takes into account the feeds you’re [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Google Reader Recommender
Posted: 30 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: feeds, google, google reader, hybrid recommender system, machine learning, math, recommender systems, rss
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Where do I belong?
Posted: 30 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cities, friends, london, places, polls, tastes
You Belong in London A little old fashioned, and a little modern.A little traditional, and a little bit punk rock. A unique soul like you needs a city that offers everything. No wonder you and London will get along so well. What City Do You Belong In? This, via my friend Israel. I guess we [...]
Frisbee Time at Frick
Posted: 28 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: dog parks, dogs, frick park, frisbee, parks, pictures, winter
I took the dogs to Frick Park this morning, something I hope to repeat as often as possible during the winter break. By the time we get home from work/school, it’s almost completely dark outside and we’re still a few weeks from the winter solstice. So the poor little devils don’t get to go to [...]
brainfsck
Posted: 28 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: brainfuck, code, compilers, computer science, programming, programming languages
Either the coolest or the stupidest programming language in the world, brainfuck was designed by Urban Müller in order to create the world’s smallest compiler of a Turing-complete programming language. Originally his compiler was 240 bytes in size, but he reportedly got it down to about 200 bytes. Others have gotten it below that. The [...]
Oh yeah, McCain
Posted: 28 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: florida, giuliani, marginalized politicians, mccain, media, polls, presidential election
Photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters I sometimes forget John McCain is running for president. The guy came in second last go-round (2000) against W, but this time he just can’t seem to get his foot out of his mouth. CNN is reporting on a Florida poll that puts him in a distant third (tied with Fred-freakin-Thompson) to [...]
New Open Access Semantics Journal
Posted: 27 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: journals, linguistics, open access, pragmatics, semantics
Semantics and Pragmatics is a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language. While the journal isn’t focused directly on computational methods, they expect to also publish material relevant to philosophers, psychologists and computer scientists. Hopefully it will be more than the occasional submission that is of interest to CS [...]
Slumber Party Christmas Album
Posted: 27 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, christmas music, doom rock, music, slumber party
So I’ve mentioned Slumber Party before. They are a detroit girl band (femme doom rock) and are freakin awesome. Seriously, I can’t get enough. They are just brilliant to me. So anyhow, I saw they had a Christmas album with 2 unnamed songs. According to the website, it’s a limited edition of 50 hand made [...]
Hanukkah Dog
Posted: 24 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, dog toys, dogs, hanukkah, hanukkah dog, humor
I’ve seen Santa dogs and elf dogs. Frosty the Snowman dogs and Rudolf dogs. But this is a new one to me.
More fun in York
Posted: 24 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cousins, family, kids, thanksgiving
So still in York on the Thanksgiving holiday, doing stuff with Donna’s family. Today we ate dinner with her cousin Connie and son Dillon. They are cousins, but were really close growing up, so are more like sisters. So to Dillon we are Aunt Donna and Uncle Jason. He is crazy cute and strong like [...]
Thanksgiving in York
Posted: 23 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: deer, dogs, family, pennsylvania, thanksgiving, york
